# Atlantic Coast Line Railroad v. Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers

> Supreme Court of the United States · June 8, 1970 · 398 U.S. 281

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9424293

## Case

- **Full name:** ATLANTIC COAST LINE RAILROAD CO. v. BROTHERHOOD OF LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERS Et Al.
- **Court:** Supreme Court of the United States
- **Decided:** June 8, 1970
- **Citations:** 398 U.S. 281; 74 L.R.R.M. (BNA) 2321; 90 S. Ct. 1739; 26 L. Ed. 2d 234; 1970 U.S. LEXIS 77
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Harlan
- **Judges:** Black, Harlan, Brennan, Marshall, White
- **Cited by:** 1,249 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

- **Yellow flag:** Declined to follow by United States v. Schurkman, 728 F.3d 129 (2013).
- Negative treatments: 1
- Distinguished by: 1
- Full citator and citing cases: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9424293

## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- holding that the “Anti-Injunction Act does not bar courts with jurisdiction over complex multidistrict litigation from issuing injunctions to protect the integrity of their rulings . . . as long as the injunctions are narrowly crafted to prevent specific abuses which threaten …
- holding that, where “state and federal courts had concurrent jurisdiction” over a dispute involving the legality of picketing by a union, “neither court was free to prevent either party from simultaneously pursuing claims in both courts”
- holding that the Anti- Injunction Act did not permit injunction of state court foreclosure proceeding
- concluding that a prior federal court order focused only on the application of federal law and therefore could not justify an injunction of a contradictory state court order where the state court had ruled as a matter of state law
- recognizing that an injunction directed at a party that “[i]n substance . . . interferes with proceedings in other courts” is barred by the Anti-Injunction Act

## Opinion text

Mr. Justice Harlan,
concurring.
I join the Court’s opinion on the understanding that its holding implies no retreat from Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen v. Jacksonville Terminal Co., 394 U. S. 369 (1969). Whether or not that case controls the underlying controversy here is a question that will arise only on review of any final judgment entered in the state court proceedings respecting that controversy.

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